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market simulators with precipio solutions, letterstocrushes.com creator

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  • March 03, 09:48 AM
  • February 26, 07:02 AM

    signed the lease for a house in hampden, maine :)

    wicked excited about it. it’s literally two streets over from the house i grew up in. weeeeird.

  • February 24, 07:32 AM

    (via miezekatzen)

    this is how life feels right now

  • February 22, 08:12 AM

    I can’t, which is one of the reasons why I rarely write about programming: it’s just not worth the risk of putting myself out there on that subject because the risk of strongly negative feedback is higher than with most other content that I can produce. It’s much easier to share my breakfast than my easily argued, easily disproven, intellectually vulnerable thoughts on programming.

    marco is spot on here, especially with regards to programmers being quite nasty people in these communities. i see this all the time in myself (to much dismay.) programmers are strange, strange people. they live in a world where one person can be more productive than 5 people - which gives them a little chip on their shoulder that they carry into these discussions (and irl, i imagine.)

    i do wish marco would write about programming more, though. to be honest, that’s pretty much the reason i follow - he’s scaling one of the most interesting, solid platforms around. (how trite would it sound if i said tumblr changed my life?) even if it’s “easily disproven”, there’s gotta be some wisdom in that experience.

  • February 14, 02:59 PM

    noahkalina:

    good times at @theacehotel

  • February 11, 09:47 AM

    zuckerberg, in pea’s print edition of the facebook. just in case you thought any successful web company was a truly original idea.

    full disclosure: i’m mad jealous.

  • February 10, 10:13 AM

    Please help improve Tumblr accessibility

    steveofmaine:

    I sent the following Email to Tumblr’s support address, and would appreciate if others would do something similar. Although not unique, Tumblr uses a flash-based player when playing uploaded audio and video content, a player which for many is completely inaccessible. Currently, Tumblr does not provide any download, or play links in standard HTML format. If you agree with my below Email, please retweet, reblog, repost — whatever it takes to focus attention on this issue. On behalf of me, myself and I, not to mention many other blind folks, I thank you. :) Steve ***original Email*** After constantly seeing Tumbr blogs popping up everywhere, I decided to jump on the band wagon and get one of my own. I’m a blind Mac user and was initially very impressed with the accessibility of the Tumblr site. Obviously accessibility will vary depending on which theme is used, but content seems accessible regardless of theme — that is, *most* content. One huge problematic area I’ve found for blind users is the embedded audio/video player which, due to its being Flash based, often is completely inaccessible. Depending on how Flash is coded, screen readers often can’t identify various controls and in many instances, can’t recognize the Flash object at all. I realize Flash is here to stay and although accessibility improvements might be possible for the existing player implementation, would like to suggest other alternatives. Ideally, in addition to the Flash player, links could be added either to play, or download content. If these links were standard HTML, all screen readers would have access. Going beyond accessibility, these links would provide access to those using mobile platforms, iPhone comes to mind. Anotheralternative would be to have the post autoplay. Youtube and twaud.io both function this way and although their controls are technically not accessible, at least their content can be heard. I sincerely hope implementing an alternative to the flash-based player can happen, Tumblr is otherwise an absolutely fantastic service. Thanks, Steve

  • January 29, 09:37 AM

    “Drifty’s Wicked Good Snowmobile Report” on the Morning Show - WKIT 100.3, The Rock of Bangor (a.k.a. Stephen King’s own radio station)

  • January 27, 07:56 PM

    fu-

  • January 25, 08:13 AM

    nedhepburn:

    Beck ‘True Love Will Find You In The End’ (Daniel Johnston cover)

  • January 19, 09:48 AM

    oh sugarloaf, i love you and your glades.

    but you stole my friend’s car keys and caused us to be stuck for 3 hours.

    i’ll call it even.

  • January 19, 09:46 AM
  • January 14, 03:25 PM

    “Rescue dogs are seen in their enclosure before leaving for Haiti at the Torrejon military airbase in Torrejon de Ardoz, Spain, Wednesday Jan. 13, 2010. Firefighters without Borders, the International Red Cross and other aid groups said they are preparing a major disaster relief effort in Haiti after a powerful earthquake struck the capital. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)”

  • January 09, 05:25 PM
  • January 06, 11:59 AM

    it can be time for hugs now?

  • January 03, 09:52 AM
  • January 01, 02:40 PM
  • December 30, 07:26 PM

    Eric Mazur: “I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. Who was to blame? The students? The material? I will explain how I came to the agonizing conclusion that the culprit was neither of these. It was my teaching that caused students to fail! I will show how I have adjusted my approach to teaching and how it has improved my students’ performance significantly.”

  • December 26, 09:21 AM

    Aesop Rock - Pigs

    sharks in the dunk tank, vipers in the garden
    locusts stole the groceries out the local farmer’s market
    all god’s critters hold positions
    some are violent, some are victims
    each alive is an equal and vital piston i support

    so when the piranhas honor new york
    my daddy long legs dangled and mangled for sport
    and while i bring in every dink in the kingdom with open wings
    it all boils down to them shit-soaked pigs
    the pigs, the pigs, the dregs of what y’all aim for
    the gluttonous muddy stomachs under the pudgy cakehole
    two-track braniac using the food and payroll
    to chew up and consume every cookie, crumb, and peso
    and place a cloven hoof on the lucrative when convenient
    as the bourbon-odor smokers’ coughs smolder off the cohiba
    if Noah had the benefit of hindsight on his ship
    he could’ve snatched two unicorns and left behind the motherfucking…

    pigs!

  • December 25, 01:27 PM
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  • December 15, 08:25 PM

    atmosphere - anterlude

    for all those whose cares have been our concern -
    the work goes on.
    the cause endures.
    the hope still lives.
    the dream shall never die.

  • December 10, 09:02 PM
  • December 01, 07:56 AM
  • November 25, 02:55 PM

    lcd soundsystem - “losing my edge”

    I used to work in the record store.
    I had everything before anyone.
    I was there in the Paradise Garage DJ booth with Larry Levan.
    I was there in Jamaica during the great sound clashes.
    I woke up naked on the beach in Ibiza in 1988.

    But I’m losing my edge,
    to better-looking people
    with better ideas and more talent.

    And they’re actually really, really nice.

    I’m losing my edge.

  • November 21, 09:27 AM
  • October 26, 06:04 PM

    bush - “insect skin”

    iron lung, i know you well
    deal with you like a bad spell
    see the trail, moon burns
    red stripe and vicadin

    you were the only one, you were the censor
    you’ll never people me, i’m not defenseless
    in the afternoon as the light dims
    build a life out of all of all this semtex
    you’re the brightest one, you were the center
    perfect opposite of of what you asked for

    it’s not just one way
    a negative factor
    with all of these wasps out
    i’d better take cover, better take cover

    copper tongue, beam me up
    lonely without my impediments
    start to save what we used to steal
    walking on, on gelatin

    i never noticed you, you were the brightest one
    you were wide of me, just like the english sun
    you caught the light again in a perfect way
    the biggest threat of all is in the alleyway
    you’re the demon seed, you’re the factor
    it feels better with a little bit of plaster

    it’s not just one way
    a negative factor
    with all of these wasps out
    i’d better take cover, better take cover
    i’d better take cover

    there’s all the pain in the way she talks
    there’s all the pain in the way she walks
    there’s all the pain in her wave goodbye
    all the pain in the way she smiles
    there’s all the pain in her fatal charm
    all the pain in her arms, arms
    in her arms, in her arms

  • October 17, 11:03 AM

    modest mouse - “whale song”, video by Bent Image Lab

  • October 07, 04:51 PM

    atmosphere - yesterday

    Yesterday —
    Was that you? Looked just like you
    Strange things my imagination might do
    Take a breath, reflect on what we been through
    Or am I just goin’ crazy ‘cause I miss you?

  • September 11, 11:27 AM

    Photo by Doug Mills, The New York Times.

  • August 23, 09:13 PM
  • August 22, 12:03 PM

    blockhead - “put down your dream journal & dance”

    if you open up the doors,
    you will see -
    love in all it’s shining glory

  • August 16, 06:11 PM
    “Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won’t know for twenty years. And you may never ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out. Just try and figure out your own divorce. And they say there is no fate, but there is: it’s what you create. And even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are only here for a fraction of a fraction of a second. Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years, for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right. And it never comes or it seems to but it doesn’t really. And so you spend your time in vague regret or vaguer hope that something good will come along. Something to make you feel connected, something to make you feel whole, something to make you feel loved. And the truth is I feel so angry, and the truth is I feel so fucking sad, and the truth is I’ve felt so fucking hurt for so fucking long and for just as long I’ve been pretending I’m OK, just to get along, just for, I don’t know why, maybe because no one wants to hear about my misery, because they have their own. Well, fuck everybody. Amen.”
    Synecdoche, New York
  • August 02, 10:39 AM
  • July 25, 06:45 PM

    Aesop Rock - Forest Crunk

  • July 14, 07:57 AM

    sutton island, acadia national park, maine

  • July 12, 04:47 PM
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  • July 03, 08:46 PM
  • June 28, 11:29 PM

    Eddie Vedder - Guaranteed (Into the Wild OST)

    On bended knee is no way to be free
    Lifting up an empty cup, I ask silently
    All my destinations will accept the one that’s me
    So I can breathe …

    Circles they grow and they swallow people whole
    Half their lives they say goodnight to wives they’ll never know
    A mind full of questions, and a teacher in my soul
    And so it goes …

    Don’t come closer or I’ll have to go
    Holding me like gravity are places that pull
    If ever there was someone to keep me at home
    It would be you …

    Everyone I come across, in cages they bought
    They think of me and my wandering, but I’m never what they thought
    I’ve got my indignation, but I’m pure in all my thoughts
    I’m alive…

    Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere
    Underneath my being is a road that disappeared
    Late at night I hear the trees, they’re singing with the dead
    Overhead …

    Leave it to me as I find a way to be
    Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting
    I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me
    Guaranteed

  • June 26, 09:29 AM

    hookah and bubbles

  • June 25, 10:20 AM

    Owen - Bad News

    Whatever it is you think you are
    you aren’t:
    a good friend, unique, well-read
    good-looking, or smart.
    Well, now you know.

    Well I hate to be the one to bear such bad news.
    I know it hurts to hear
    but it’s true.
    You don’t mean anything
    to anyone but me.
    And even I think
    that you’re blinded by conceit.
    So now you know.

    Free beer
    and basement shows
    don’t mean you’ve made it.
    It’s what you do
    not who you were, or what you wear, or where you’ve been,
    so do something.

    Whoever you think is watching you dance
    from across the room,
    they aren’t.
    If anything, they feel sorry for you
    ‘cause you try so hard.

    I know it hurts to hear
    but it’s the truth
    So you might as well hear it
    from a friend.
    You’re a has-been
    that never was.

    And I know it’s mean to say
    but it’s something I’ve been meaning to say to you
    for a while.
    You’re a has-been
    that never was
    or will be.

  • June 09, 05:39 PM

    workspace, june 9th

  • May 31, 02:37 PM
  • May 21, 10:42 AM

    i’m really excited about this new Sprockets bike. i’ve got that happy-with-a-secret feeling.

  • May 17, 12:00 PM

    Elliott Smith — Instrumental (Basement Demos)

  • May 16, 06:08 PM

    Owen — “Windows and Doorways”

    windows and doorways
    i don’t know which way to leave this room,
    cause i’m afraid of heights.
    and i’m afraid of you tonight,
    those striped socks and punk rock pajamas.
    someways i’ve changed, but in most ways i’m the same.

    for better or worse i can’t say,
    only time will tell.
    like an addict i’m cursed in a good way
    i’ve done it so long and i’m not sure how not to

  • May 09, 09:38 PM
  • May 06, 08:50 AM

    Angel Oak, Charleston, South Carolina

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